Lee Mack

Limestone Road xx xxx xx Improvisation No 6 02 22 2014

Lee B. Mack

Columbia, Maryland 21044

Improvisation No.6 xx 02 22 2014 Original 12 26 2013

Several stanza covering about 3 0r 4 pagesdepending upon formats

Limestone Road:

Limestone road we no longer need A hit for highs from dust and grindSewer lines through flues down Gutters over spillways into endemic Cholera share creeks where we swim Inexpressive swimming-strokes taken To tipping points in synchronicity Reach to bridge high to trestle Tracks lifted above trenches below B&O freight trains on wheels on rails Over waste runoff streams ditched By oak trees and strung by trestles That bridge spans from electric sun Rays grounded to alchemized new life Barren backyards crust behind Negro Shacks down by that part of town

Police called 'Creek Bottom' where up The hill to the corner grocery store Over the railroad crossing - shelves of White owned stock would rot waiting The ability of black wages to rise and Both inventories to sort as soon as Interest disappeared absorbed by high Grounds and reservoirs perking in aChemistry of bonds in a distant village White masked poor and black souls toil As underemployed peoples reposed in a Restless sleep -the two dream voodoo Pleasures to scare each other - on edge At prefaces of the pit of economic war The Lord's next supper for the betterForgives and then deny him or not- Provides discerning spirits - forgiving Communes in the Lord's unbroken body

Wakes making sounds as rails vibrate to Hum perfect pitch-art imitating loveMaking xylophonic and fiddle string Music - tightened to tune instrumental Perfect pitch -clack creaking steel Wheels react to silent interludes… Joint nails tie creosol logs to rails And ring out soul in measured symphonies Skeptical of the synchronicity and Blessings - the fulfillment of hope And the seeing heart that beats to the Tempo of love - the courthouse shut down Sets face to face with revolutionary grace

For ritual holidays witnesses stand in Jury boxes making hallow pleas for Justifiable appeals to merciless chits ofMockeries - chambers empty justice shakes The judges' chambers quake -State andLocal legislatures and banks close on Condition red -no one hears what Citizens say -moments pass him by graves Dug with holes open and empty - wait to Hear what certainty says - read the lift And drift as dust from the limestone road Settles - read on to the end down through The undertaker's listed dead - death is Certain so the word said - inhale limestone Dust - out live the country boy's hit As it is -the farm girl lives neighborlyOver the cow patch hill - a high dose

Lee Mack copyright 2009. ISBN # 0615318347. No permission granted.

(Lee B. Mack, Limestone Road, Page 3)

Of lust - drugs quickly knock out last Traces of pain and leaves the sicknessOf resident condemnation in the senses -Troubling-in-mind and genetic soul rootIncreases growth to mimic life to spread Test each lie and lack in the sweet talk Espoused in it for the comedic reasoningTruth re-represents in last cold emotionsIndustrial waste and innovation tastes ofRevolutions' enticements - shoo cats of Con and divide interest charged the poor

For the richness of fat leftover - sic Dogs upon it - cover old limestone roads With patches of sparse verdure - mark The bleed of health and peel away the Absurdity from the den of iniquity of Riches - from the bark of trees falling To cemeteries underfoot - roots vine Below ground in strata of wastes from the Mouths of humanity recording markings on Faces of stars and stone with pencils ofbone -the alien in darkness sweeps away Wasted human word leaving no trace of Praise in the definite article for Elohim -

Nature burns to choke on cough to spit Thyroid on soot and tar fires - coal Burns to turn simplest meaning to change Love unnecessarily to the love of changeWaters poured above and below the Firmament wash away oils rubbed onto Hardware plasma - roll the dough for Common bread - drain fish of oils for Anointing - rub away the dead with skin Limestone road would cover and soonDisintegrate with time - to form force Fields moving with wind and thornVines sprout to reign over unrighteous

Branches -so to lead to find the woman At home protected by rights of birth - The Lord leaves room for life as lived - give Life all you can give walking on dried turf Alongside in safety on shoulders insideThe fences by the edge of limestone roads.

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Poet's Notes about The Poem

This poem is inspired by: In 1944 a seven year old Negro played near the limestone road fronting the farm house of his sharecropping grandfather and next door to the house occupied by the farm owner named Rothschild. The road identified in those days was Finchville Road. In later years that road became known as Kentucky State Rural Route 55. He saw on that late summer day in 1944 a green US Army truck pass carrying a dozen or more German POW's, and two rifle carrying US soldiers standing on the rear. The boy had no idea about what he saw that day. It was only a green truck disappearing in a cloud of limestone dust. Thirty eight years later in the year 1975 the boy had become a young college educated man who now remembered and began applying ideas and synchronicities to that scene in 1943.

In 1956 that same boy was a private in the army at the Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He was assigned to the Hexagon army facility to work with three German scientist working on top secret military research developing the computer/telecommunications to track the Russian Sputnik and other satellite space vehicles. Later in 1956 and in 1957 (October 4,1957) that boy was in attendance in the military facility at Deal, New Jersey along with scientist tracking the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellite. He was then a high school graduate,19 years old and the only black person present and attending the research and field testing operations tracking the Sputnik the night of its launching on that historic occasion. That boy went later to Mountain-view, California, along with five American scientist from MIT to Military Electronic Defense Plants where they continued work in civilian facilities on military operations field testing telecommunication. He continued working in a military capacity with these civilian scientists for three years in New Jersey and California, and during the years leading to the spreading of (R&D) research and development of computer/telecommunication. A birthplace for and vicinity later known as Silicon Valley.

In 1986 that boy began to experience 'locality synchronicities'. He became able to experience events re-represented in the context of, and that linked events from 1943 to many future random events occurring periodically throughout the rest of his life. these events happen in the 1950's,1968,1970's,1980's,1990's, and 2000's. All these are years during which events occur covering, business career, health, Holy Spirit, family, and soul relative experiences. Most of the events occur locally but can be defined as non-locality occurring events.